Originally Posted by
dereiziger
Although not THE deciding factor, flying United across the Pacific for 14 hours without inflight entertainment would not be the most pleasant experience... So if anyone has some first hand experience, appreciate it.
Before you book UA for the miles you might want to look at this thread on the delay / cancellation record for UA flights to SYD and MEL. It has 1250+ posts in it.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...d-threads.html
The reliability record on those UA flights is something short of sterling. They're old birds and they get sick a lot. Can you comfortably ride out a delay in each direction of one or two days if they occur?
Me, I'd book AC ex-YVR for the newer birds and IFE. They mean more to me than E+.